Xavier Dupont's Vanishing Act

Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès is the main suspect in the murders of his wife, Agnès, and their four children, whose bodies were discovered under their house in France in 2011. He had presented himself as a devoted family man while hiding severe financial difficulties, which ultimately led him to murder his family out of shame and a desire to escape the consequences of his failures. After abandoning his car near a budget hotel, he vanished, prompting an international arrest warrant and hundreds of reported sightings; theories about his disappearance range from suicide to being framed or going into hiding, with some suggesting he may have escaped to South America or undergone plastic surgery to start anew.

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